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- [00:05]
Mick
Welcome to Mick Unplugged. Where we ignite potential and fuel purpose. Get ready for raw insights, bold moves and game changing conversations. Buckle up, here's Mick.
- [00:16]
David Jolly
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Mick Unplugged. And today we have a guest that is a comedic genius who has an unfiltered style of humor and a magnetic stage presence that has been lighting up the comedy scene worldwide. Known for his quick wit and a viral hashtag that we're definitely going to get into in a moment, he's become a standout performer on the renowned live podcast Kill Tony and a regular at the comedy club closest to you. Get ready for a real and deep conversation with the hilarious, the unapologetic, the unstoppable, my uncle, Mr. David Jolly. Uncle Dave. How are you doing today, brother?
- [00:57]
Mick
Mama, we made it.
- [00:59]
David Jolly
We sure did.
- [01:00]
Mick
We sure did.
- [01:01]
David Jolly
Hey, Uncle Dave, we just going to give them the cookout conversation.
- [01:05]
Mick
You say David, you can just say David. That's cool, David.
- [01:09]
David Jolly
Yeah, giving them the cookout conversation for show. They they ain't ready for this one.
- [01:15]
Mick
They going to have to get it.
- [01:16]
David Jolly
Let's go, let's go. So for the world, y'all got to understand my Uncle David, man, like, when I talk about a true comedic genius, I really mean that by every stretch of the imagination. Because Uncle David, you know this. Just like I know there's a lot of funny people out there.
- [01:35]
Mick
Just. Davey, you make me feel old.
- [01:37]
David Jolly
You are old.
- [01:38]
Mick
I ain't number 43, motherfucker. You look older than me, man.
- [01:41]
David Jolly
I am 22. What's 24? Little brother Dave just named it. So there's a thing, there's a lot of people that can be funny, right? Like we talk about the cookout. Everybody has that funny uncle that can tell a good joke, have everybody laughing. But there is a big difference when you gotta get on stage and people expect you to be funny and expect you to tear their stomach up, man. How did you master that?
- [02:13]
Mick
I just. It ain't no plan B, you know what I mean? Like, people say like, oh, I wanna do this. Like, I don't know the last time I did nothing regular, you know, like, if I'm dating somebody, she know, hey, I'm really dating comedy. You gonna be here for a minute. But I mean, how long you gonna really last? Cause like every single day I go do comedy, you know, Like, I got here early tonight. Cause I just wanna see the city of D.C. and I'm gonna go find somewhere to get up at tonight, you know, people wanna do Stuff. But then some people wanna dedicate the rest of their lives to it. You know what I mean? You can't make it. You can't be halfway in and halfway out, like, hey, man, I got a show. I got this big opportunity for you. And you like, well, I gotta go to the movies with my lady. Ain't no girlfriend no more. Ain't no way that. Not if you want to do it for real. All of that is out the door. The only thing you married to is comedy.
- [03:06]
David Jolly
Yep. And here's what I learned from you. And this is something you taught me, man. And I mean this genuinely. A lot of people wait for an opportunity, or they wait for opportunity to not. What David Jolly said is, damn it, I am the opportunity. And you, you make everything happen. Because to your point, there is no plan B. You are the opportunity, man. Like, how do you help other people understand that? Because most people don't get it. They. They sit around and wait for somebody to give them something or wait for that phone call. Oh, it's 2024, 2025. Those phones don't ring like that no more.
- [03:42]
Mick
I mean, if you. If I'm cool with you, I'm gonna cuss you out about it, boy. People understand. They don't understand being nice no more. Like, if I can't talk to you like a man and we talk to each other like that, then you just like an associate. If I mess with you, then, hey, man, I want to see you win. Like, or let's just leave each other alone. You know what I mean? Like. Cause you can't tell me that you want to do something and then you gonna sit and complain about what could happen. Are we either gonna make a solution for it or you can lay in your own misery?
- [04:12]
David Jolly
Absolutely.
- [04:13]
Mick
You gotta find a solution. Or, you know, like, somebody told me when I first started doing comedy and my boy, Ross McCoy, I was like, so what I do after this? He was like, you bomb a lot. You gonna go to every mic. No matter what it feel like, you just gonna keep going, you know, just keep. Like, people say they go up a lot, but you is like, you have no idea. You know what I'm saying? Like, literally living and live this. That's it. Ain't nothing else, you know?
- [04:42]
David Jolly
Yep, yep.
- [04:43]
Mick
I mean, I just keep going. Just. You just gotta keep going. Especially when it look crazy. That means something good come around the corner.
- [04:50]
David Jolly
And that's the essence of life, too. Not even just in the comedy world, but just in life. I tell people all the time, man, like, Their success just on the other side, where people fail is they just stop, right? Like, woe was me. The world is coming. The world is crashing on everybody, man. Like, everybody going through something, it's those that keep going that see success happen.
- [05:11]
Mick
And nobody want to hear your misery, your sad sob story. Like, when I ended up in Austin, like, you know, Cam called me when he first moved there, and like, this was before Kill Tony. This was before all of that. Like, he called me and I was like, man, how you liking it? And then, like, he was like, man, I love it out here, man. I'm murdering these people. Like, I'm really destroying out here. So I was like, man, let me check this out. So it was my birthday, was like the next week. So I was like, I'm going to get a flight out here. He was like, man, you ain't coming out here. So I caught a flight, got there that Saturday. I did an open mic that Sunday for Comedy Mothership, and I got invited back. So at that point, I was like, oh, this is the way in. Right then I was like, this is my opportunity right here. I gotta make the best of this opportunity. And then, like, I kept coming flying back and forth, you know, to come see Cam and to just get up. And then the Kill Tony thing happened when I was there, and it just went, like, everything was, like, off. But, I mean, you would think that's when it get easy, but that's when it get harder. Cause everybody's shooting at you then, right? Body want to bury you when you go on stage. But, I mean, that's where like, the gang violence thing come from. If we on stage, like, say we on the same show, and I deal with you, I'm like, gang violence? Hey, it's finna get real. I'm about to go over here and destroy these people. You better be able to follow it, you know, it's just like iron sharpening iron, you know what I mean? Just creating monsters, you know?
- [06:39]
David Jolly
Right, right.
- [06:40]
Mick
It depends on where you look at it or, you know, like, I believe in just murdering, you know. Yeah, paid up.
- [06:47]
David Jolly
Yeah. And for all my corporate listeners, he's not talking about, like, physically murdering. Calm down, calm down, calm down.
- [06:53]
Mick
Yeah, I should have. I shouldn't act.
- [06:56]
David Jolly
Oh, you can say any. You can say any and everything you want. This is your world.
- [07:02]
Mick
You know, I still try to not get too crazy, you know, Try to be somewhat professional.
- [07:08]
David Jolly
Everything is everything, man. So how did David Jolly get started, like. Like that Essence, you know, on Mick Unplugged. We, like, to talk about your. Because that thing that really gets you going, your real purpose, your real mission. What got David Jolly started in the game?
- [07:23]
Mick
I got a buddy of mine named D Rog. He a rapper. He's a comedian, like one of my best friends, you know. And he was about to do a show with these people called Tom and Dan and my boy Ross McCoy. It was a local comedy show. I never did comedy, but I was always funny, you know, And I never knew where to start at. I never knew about none of that. Cause I'm from Orlando, so I found out once I went to the show and I asked him beforehand, hey, can I get a little time in? And Ross was like, nah, man, it's a real show. We ain't letting you up here. You ain't gonna come stink my stage up. But then when I got there, I had prepared, like, maybe he might let me on. I never really wrote any jokes. I just wrote down some ideas. So when I got there, he was like, you know what? Just get up. So I got up. It was really, really good. I asked him what to do next, and he say, you gotta. You live. This is your new life. You know, you do this every day. And that's what I did. I just stayed at it. I stayed at it. I stayed at it. I stayed at it every day. Horrible mics. There's five people in there. Sometimes them be my favorite mics. I still go to the mics. I go from a show at the Mothership and go to the Creaking Cave at midnight just to see if this new material work. Cause I'm not gonna do it at the Mothership yet, you know, so it's like just. Just going. Just go and go and go and go and go. And it's just everything been falling into place. This ain't no process that's happened overnight. You know, I'm at eight years, but I always knew this was gonna happen. I don't know if it sound arrogant or however it sounds, but in my brain, when I tell myself I'm gonna do something, it ain't no maybes. It ain't none of that. I don't use that verbiage, you know.
- [09:07]
David Jolly
You wouldn't have got on the first mic if you didn't see yourself doing it.
- [09:11]
Mick
Yeah, exactly. And that's what I was drinking. Like, I don't drink anymore, you know. Been like almost 18 months now. So, you know, I just. When I went back home and I was kind of still like, hey, I'm happy. Like, I was on kill. Tony. Oh, everybody know who I am. And I was like, man, lock in. It's time to go. This is going to be the next step. Well, your mama ain't got to work no more. You know what I mean? Lock in. It's time to go. Forget all that drinking and all that nonsense that. Cause I used to work at hospitality, so it was second nature to drink, you know? Yeah. Had a drinking problem, though. I was like a real alcoholic. Real? Yeah, like a real one. I waited tables for a long time. I worked in, like, construction type joint. I used to drive, deliver drywall, operate heavy machinery, all kind of stuff. You know, just like a normal, normal dude, you know?
- [10:05]
David Jolly
Yeah. Yeah. So what was the key to sobriety and then the important part, the key to maintaining it? Because you live in a world where that's what's going on. You work in an environment where they're giving you the vice right in front of you.
- [10:21]
Mick
I really don't live in this world, though, mentally. Like, I'm usually not even here. I could be in the same room with someone and not know nothing about what's going on. I'd be so much inside of my mind, you know, on the next step, you know what I mean? That's just how I operate. I gotta be doing something towards my goal, you know? Cause ain't nobody gonna give it to you, so I'm gonna just go take it. That's how.
- [10:46]
David Jolly
So. So for you, it was literally, this is my goal, this is my mission. In order to get to where I'm trying to go. Drinking has to stop. That's pretty much how it works.
- [10:54]
Mick
It's always been fun. My life. In my life, until it got to the point where it's like, now this is in front of you, and you know this will ruin you because you gotta do this all the time now. You gotta always be thinking about this. It's gonna be people that come at you on the Internet. There's gonna be people that, like, just try to, like. You gotta have the. You gotta have the sense to know. All right, let me just leave this situation alone. Because if you drinking, you might flip out on somebody. What if you beat somebody up now? You don't nobody want to work with you. But I was drinking. I wasn't an angry drunk. I was probably the happiest guy in the world. But at the same time, it wasn't fulfilling to 100% to get where I needed to be mentally. So whatever that was, I had to cut it off. Like, I woke up. Woke up July 5th, and I said, I ain't drinking no more because I got pretty drunk on the fourth. So I said, you know what? I'm done. I didn't necessarily have the shakes and all of that, but in the back of my mind, subliminally, I was like. I mean, subconsciously, I was like, all right, you know, you can't drink. And then my everyday process is, okay, let me get a drink. So I would have to say, no, what are you doing? You know what I mean? Because subconsciously, that's just what I did.
- [12:11]
David Jolly
Yeah, yeah. And. And what I'm hearing, David, is you saying you also realize you were becoming a brand, right? A lot of people think that a brand is a logo, right? No, no, no, no. In. In 20, 24, 20, 25, you are a brand. Yeah. And everything around your brand, especially again, your own national stages, right? Cameras everywhere. Everybody in the audience has a cell phone. Now, everybody on the sidewalk has a cell phone. People in the car beside you got a phone. That phone is 24, 7 live media. Now, people, you gotta realize you are a brand, and you have mastered that David Jolly as a brand.
- [12:51]
Mick
What I like about it is, especially being a part of the Kill Tony universe is I'm never worried about getting canceled. Most of my subject matter is like, it's not cancelable. It's. It's just from a different point of view. Like, I got all kind of jokes. I got. I got everything you name, but you can't be offended by it. Like, I got a trans joke where, like, I tell. And if it's. If it's homosexual people, it was been a trans woman. She was like 6, 8, 2, 40 in Atlanta. I'm on stage and I'm thinking to myself, like, if you think I'm not telling this trans joke, you out of your mind. And then she laughed at it hysterically and was like, man, that's a good joke. So, I mean, I just want to be that person that, like, bring back real comedy, let people say what they want to say. How come most of the people offended? Not even the people who we talking about.
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David Jolly
Bingo.
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Mick
I ain't seen not one Puerto Rican say nothing or question nothing when that situation happened with Tony. Not one. Not one person. I mean, I don't really want to make it a race issue. You know, it's just. Maybe it's just a cultural issue, but in that race.
- [14:03]
David Jolly
Yeah, yeah. We care about everybody else and everybody else's feelings, Right? Except we don't want to come home.
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Mick
And talk about the real, like, black people. We want to talk about everybody else. Like jokes or everybody else could get it. Let one white dude say, you ate some fried chicken. Oh, you racist. No, that's prejudice. It's a big reverence. It's a stereotype that we use to make jokes about other people. But we might be worse than Jewish people in the tense of like black. You can't say nothing about us, but we can say everything about everybody else. I don't care about no jokes if it's funny. If it ain't funny, I ain't gonna laugh. If it's funny, I'm gonna laugh.
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David Jolly
Agree.
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Mick
You know what? I agree. But we always got a defense mechanism up. Like everybody's against us unless we with our own people.
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David Jolly
Yeah. And I'd say even other races the same way. Right. I think the world, to your point, needs to understand the difference between what's prejudiced, what's. Exactly.
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Mick
We need to bring back Archie Bunker and George Jefferson. We need a show like that right now so we can realize like, hey man, my dad said something like this. He don't mean nothing. But Archie Bunker was just dumb. George Jefferson was just dumb. But that's the way that America thought. But we was okay with that because this is. We still got to live together.
- [15:28]
David Jolly
And you're always going to have extremes, right? You're always going to have that extreme that yeah, they do hate insert whatever the race is. They do hate insert whatever the gender or non gender is. You have the extremists. But that's the minority, right? Like that really is the minority.
- [15:45]
Mick
That hate came from a not knowing. It came from the same fact. Like I'm 43 years old. You gotta do this, you gotta. If I never did that, I would've been started this journey way earlier. But the thing is, if I would've started it earlier, I would've died. Cause I'm pretty sure I would've got really, really famous and got and just did something that would be my norm to be that way, you know, to just be like no understanding. Like I'm 30 years old, I got a couple hundred million dollars. You know, I knew this process had to happen, but it happened when it needed to happen.
- [16:19]
David Jolly
Yep, yep.
- [16:20]
Mick
You know what I mean? Cause you know, our parents told us go to school, get a good job. And I could never really work for nobody. Like I'd be working for somebody. And it'll go on for a while and as soon as they get comfortable where they think they gonna say whatever they want to or like I've never had A boss in my life. You know what I mean? I've worked for companies, but anytime you even insinuate that you got some type of boss complex, I'm going to straighten you right there. First of all, I don't have a boss. Second of all, I work for this company. And your title is this for this company. Right. So you work for them too. Right. Like, people hated me, man. It was just everything had to happen how it had to happen, because I know I can't work for nobody. I wake up and cuss you out until you don't talk to me no more. I might be like, hold on, I ain't sure, but I love it, man.
- [17:15]
David Jolly
So you got into the comedy game, and one of the questions I wanted to ask you specifically. Right again, the genius of David Jolly, from telling a joke to actually writing a bit. Right. Like, what was that transformation like from just. Again, we're at the cookout, everybody can be funny and tell a joke, but when you gotta be on stage for 10, 15, 30 minutes, when you're David Jolly doing 45 in an hour, like, you gotta be able to write a little bit, too, and connect the dots. Like, what was that journey and transformation like for you?
- [17:50]
Mick
It wasn't ever hard because I got a buddy of mine named Carmen Vallon that gave me this book called the Comedy Bible. So, I mean, like, premise, setup, punchline, I keep that in my mind. But a lot of the times I don't even write like that. That's just a basic formula to go off of you in my mind, like a computer. It's like a, you know. You know, like, I need some type of formula sometime. I can come with nothing. Like, sometimes I might just say something funny, and I just take it to the stage and I riff on it a little bit, and then I try to build a structure off of that. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I just write out a whole joke word for word, and I cut out, like, 80% of it. And that actually works, you know?
- [18:33]
David Jolly
Yeah.
- [18:33]
Mick
I mean, but everybody has their own style of writing, and you know what I mean? Like, the more and more, the blessing that I've had since being in Austin is getting to be around comics that have been successful on this level for so much time, and just the genuine love for comedy and just good people that they are, you know, the good people that they are, they'll be like, hey, man, you know, you ever talk about this? Or, like, if you got any questions, or, hey, let's go on the road like that, like, When Cam started doing comedy. Cause you know, I'm his mentor. You know, I really don't tell people that. Cause I don't ever want to take away from his shine. But when he started doing it and the drive that he had, that brought back another level of hunger for me. Like, I was like, okay, let's go. You know what I mean? Cause it was just like it was back. Because most of the people in Orlando, you know, they just. They're hobbyists, you know. Yeah. They're competing with each other. I'm not competing with nobody. But yesterday me. You know what I mean?
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David Jolly
Yes, sir.
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Mick
We all on the same team. I ain't competing with you. What am I competing with you for? You know what I mean? Like, you in the same place. I mean, why would I compete with you when you could tell me nothing about the next level?
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David Jolly
That's it.
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Mick
You know? You know, I mean, it all depends on, like, the seriousness. What do you see in something. Like, it's. I wouldn't go and start playing semi pro football. Cause I don't think I could do it, you know? And I don't love football that much. You know what I'm saying? It's just focus, man. Focus. Lock in. Focus, focus, focus. That will take you so far in life. I'm not mad at the things as, like, the way I was raised and the way our elders told us how we should go about the next level. Even though I wish I knew a little bit about this here and stuff that I'm finding out about now as to why this guy never worked in his life because he worked for himself. You know what I mean? Like, so, you know, it is what it is.
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David Jolly
No, so you mastered the storytelling, and then that led you to the world that you're in now. And I know the story of David Jolly isn't even done right, because we're about to see so many amazing things that are happening. I'm putting it in the universe because I believe in you that much, man. Getting to kill Tony. How did that happen?
- [20:56]
Mick
Well, Cam got pulled out of the bucket, you know, he got pulled out of the bucket and then just. Everything just went crazy. So I went back to Orlando, and when I came back. Cause I was coming back to do spots at the Mothership because, you know, I was like, in. Adam Egan was like, hey, man, whenever you're in town, come and do spots, you know? So I was flying back, like, once a month, sometimes twice a month. The only reason why I was still in Orlando is because I had a lease and my son hadn't graduated from high school yet. So as soon as he graduated, I was gone, you know? So, like, what was the question again?
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David Jolly
Kill Tony? Yeah, getting to kill Tony.
- [21:39]
Mick
It was great, man. Like, everybody in there is just good people. Like, just being with Cam and then it like, I just got an opportunity. That's what I'm going to say. I ain't going to get too much into, you know, but it was great. The opportunity that was presented to myself. I just did what I had to do.
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David Jolly
Love it.
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Mick
You love it. It's great, man. If there's any comics watching this, I tell you, come to Austin. Get away from your local scene. Cause that same guy that's been doing that same thing for 25 years, he may want you to succeed, he may not want you to succeed. Some people just get to a point where they've been doing it so long, they just angry. And you gotta get away from them people. Cause they don't have no vision no more. They just ready to die. They just going by the pace of day by day of his. Just day by day, you know, if you know you can make it. Get away from your hometown. And it's not knocking your hometown. Cause the people in Orlando love me. I'm born and raised there. I lived in Tampa for a while, Tallahassee. But I'm a Florida boy. The people in my city love me. But it's the people that's in your same profession that say that they love you. But then they really don't show it. I'm not mad at them. I never. It might sound crazy, but when. Even when I first started, I was looking past Orlando. I never even felt like I was a local comic. I never felt like. Like, I mean, I have no beef with nobody, everybody. I'm cool with everybody, but I just didn't want to follow y'all rules. I was going to do it my way because I.
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David Jolly
A unique one of one.
- [23:17]
Mick
Yeah. I had, like, a little traction going on, building followers, doing these stupid videos that were like, I know you fucking liar. And it'll be like a crazy motherfucker. Then it'll be me, like, talking about them. So those were going viral. But then once, like, this Austin situation turned out, and it just. It's getting crazy, but in a good way.
- [23:36]
David Jolly
So let's go back to that viral moment, right? I teased it in the opener with the hashtag. How did you come up with that freaking concept, dude? And now you're seeing other people starting to do the style that you did, right? Cause nobody was doing the videos the way that you were. Now it's become a thing, right?
- [23:55]
Mick
You mean with I know you fucking lying? Well, a lot you people make them now. And I don't ever say nothing. I just. Whatever, you know, like how you used to be like some crazy stuff, then it'll cut away and then it'll be me. Like, I know you fucking lying. Look at this.
- [24:08]
David Jolly
Yeah.
- [24:09]
Mick
You know, I just had to find something that would work because I know just the old school way of moving to New York and moving to la, and then you gotta meet these people. I wanna go around everybody. I don't wanna have to. I'm gonna do the work. The work is gonna speak for itself. But I don't want how you feel about me to dictate my career.
- [24:36]
David Jolly
Yeah, no, I'll say it differently. You wanted to work. You just didn't have to stand in line. You know what I mean? You have to stand in line.
- [24:44]
Mick
Somebody don't like me and then they like. They try to push somebody back. Like, I've seen it happen. I've seen it happen in comedy scenes where one person don't like this person and they'll just brush you off, you know? And it's like that person might not even bother nobody. They just don't like that. They quiet. Yeah, that's crazy.
- [25:04]
David Jolly
Yeah. Yeah. But the hashtag and the video viral is crazy. Still some of my favorite things today. I'll go back and watch something you did eight, nine months ago. Because it's still relevant now, man.
- [25:18]
Mick
And like, oh, again, the first time I got on Kill Tony, that was. Yeah, I think I only watched that, like one time. I couldn't watch it. It was too cringe for me.
- [25:29]
David Jolly
Yeah, it was just.
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Mick
It was too much, you know, I mean, because that wasn't me. I mean, it was me at the time. And I'm a very fun, outgoing guy. Anybody know that? I say whatever. I don't really care about your feelings, you know, because you forcing to this point. But that was just real. I was sloppy drunk that day. I was sloppy.
- [25:57]
David Jolly
But still funny. And you were still you. You were still you, I'll give you that.
- [26:01]
Mick
Yeah, I actually fell asleep next door. And they were like, where Charlie? Where Charlie? I'm at the bar, Ma. They woke me up. I'm running in the rain. Like really stumbling in the rain, not really running, but, you know, then the rest was history. They say, you on. And my brain just say, showtime.
- [26:23]
David Jolly
Showtime.
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Mick
Yeah.
- [26:26]
David Jolly
Yes, sir. So, hey, man, like, you blessed us with time I know you're busy. I want to go rapid fire with David Jolly.
- [26:34]
Mick
Let's show.
- [26:35]
David Jolly
All right, so from Orlando, what's your favorite restaurant food spot in Orlando?
- [26:40]
Mick
Oh, that's a good question. Flavors. My boy Jared Knowles got a company called Flavors.
- [26:46]
David Jolly
Yep.
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Mick
I love him. Yeah. Oh, you know about flavors?
- [26:49]
David Jolly
Yeah.
- [26:49]
Mick
Oh, yeah, he got. He cook it all, man. Good. Good food. Real good food.
- [26:54]
David Jolly
Yup, yup. Your favorite sports team, Professional or college? Like, who was David's team?
- [26:59]
Mick
Orlando Magic. And the tail.
- [27:02]
David Jolly
No, no, I said sports team, not jv. Basketball.
- [27:06]
Mick
Hey, it's for you. And the shot of harness. Michelle. The Hornets. Hey, Iron record. Better than y'all. Y'all trash. You. You a harness fan or you.
- [27:18]
David Jolly
No, I'm a. I'm a Laker fan.
- [27:20]
Mick
But I knew it, you know? Well, we better than the Lakers, too. Y'all cherish.
- [27:30]
David Jolly
Okay, this. This year, right now. Right now. I can't even argue with you. I gotta give it to you.
- [27:35]
Mick
I mean, But I respect LeBron. I'm a LeBron fan. I like the fact that he carries himself as a man. Everybody hate him. And he don't have any scandals. He don't have nothing. You don't even have a reason to not like the man. But that come with fame, so whatever.
- [27:48]
David Jolly
Yep. No, I'm. I'm there. Jordan's my goat, though. Jordan and Kenny Anderson are my guys, so I'm. They're always was a bad man. Kenny Anderson is one of my mentors. Like, we talk every morning. He sends me a message. You played ball, too, in high school?
- [28:03]
Mick
Oh, yeah, I played basketball. I played basketball, football, and baseball. And in all three sports, I wrote the bench. They said I paid me a scholarship for riding the bench. I say, nah, man, I ain't gonna take this one, man. It's all right.
- [28:20]
David Jolly
There it is.
- [28:21]
Mick
And then you got the Buccaneers. You know, I'm from Florida, so you gotta go with the Bucks. Not the Bucks. Dolphins.
- [28:28]
David Jolly
I don't like any. I don't like any of those teams.
- [28:30]
Mick
Who you going to say? The Cowboys.
- [28:32]
David Jolly
I hate them, too. So I'm going to tell you the team, but I'm going to tell you it's because of family first. So my uncle is in the hall of Fame for the New England Patriots. So I was born a Patriot fan. I. I wasn't Brady. And then I started becoming a fan, like it was when they were terrible. See, I was laid back then.
- [28:50]
Mick
Yeah. Remember the 80s? This young.
- [28:53]
David Jolly
Yeah, that's when my uncle was there.
- [28:54]
Mick
I thought at one good year in the 80s. Didn't they almost go to the Super Bowl?
- [28:59]
David Jolly
They went to the Super Bowl 85 and lost to the Bears. Walter Payton ran for 8 million yards and didn't score a touchdown that game.
- [29:06]
Mick
You from South Carolina?
- [29:07]
David Jolly
Yes, sir.
- [29:08]
Mick
Oh, born and raised right there.
- [29:10]
David Jolly
Yes, sir.
- [29:10]
Mick
I think I might be. I'm waiting on Lynn Kira to hit me back. But I'll be at the Greenville South. Greenville comedy zone, hopefully April 6th, I believe.
- [29:21]
David Jolly
Oh, I'll be there. And we'll sell it out. I'll promote it when we get off.
- [29:27]
Mick
Send me your number. I don't have your number. I hit you up all the time. You a good dude, bro. You feel me?
- [29:32]
David Jolly
Yes, sir.
- [29:33]
Mick
You gotta have strong black men who focus on the same thing. Cause it's a race issue, but it's always a race issue. And some of us can't change our minds to get away from stuff like from what we just traditionally been given, you know?
- [29:51]
David Jolly
Yep.
- [29:51]
Mick
Dang it. It is what it is. But we'll break those curses.
- [29:55]
David Jolly
Yes, sir. All right, last question for David Jolly or second to last question. Your top three favorite comedians of all time.
- [30:04]
Mick
Cam Patterson, David Jolly, and Kim Miller. Love it.
- [30:11]
David Jolly
Love it.
- [30:11]
Mick
Oh, yeah, love it. They're my first. They're my favorite three.
- [30:15]
David Jolly
Yeah. Yeah. And Cam is a beast. For those who don't know Cam, like, Cam is a beast.
- [30:21]
Mick
Yeah. Like, he talked about me a lot on, like, the podcast. I like it. I just don't never want to, like, get in the way of his shine, you know, Killing it right now. That's who I'm up here with now. Like, either I'm doing my headlining dates, Killers Will Kill Tony dates, or I just come with Cam on the road. Like, I don't have a weekend off until, like, January 23rd, and I'm probably going to try to fill that calendar. Like, I don't like sitting down. I'd rather be on the road.
- [30:50]
David Jolly
Yeah. And for those listening and watching, David is coming to a city near you. Like, I know. I'm actually. I'm going to Boston next weekend, and then you're in Boston two weekends after that. So I'm going to let everybody know in Boston, like, when I'm up there next weekend to make sure that they go check you out.
- [31:06]
Mick
That's crazy. You gonna be there next weekend?
- [31:09]
David Jolly
Yeah.
- [31:10]
Mick
Yes. Send me your number. Cause we gonna be at Lavs Boston anyway. We cam. Okay. So if you want some tickets or just come ticket.
- [31:18]
David Jolly
Yeah, yeah, we'll make that happen all day.
- [31:21]
Mick
Yeah, I like It Boston. Cool, man.
- [31:23]
David Jolly
Yeah, I love Boston.
- [31:25]
Mick
Yeah, it's dope. Cause I got. I gotta do Boston and I do Providence right. The day before that.
- [31:30]
David Jolly
Okay.
- [31:31]
Mick
Yeah. Private is. That's a real town?
- [31:33]
David Jolly
Yeah. In Rhode Island. Yeah. It's wild.
- [31:35]
Mick
Yeah, it's pretty. It's different over there.
- [31:38]
David Jolly
Yeah.
- [31:40]
Mick
Don't get the wrong idea about all that stuff up there. They get it down over there.
- [31:45]
David Jolly
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Last question. Where can people follow and find you?
- [31:50]
Mick
Instagram is Mr. Djolli or go to unclejolly.com and I got like everything going on in my life as far as like show dates and sitting near you. But Mr. D. Jolly, follow that. Cause I need some more followers, man.
- [32:07]
David Jolly
All right. It's going to be in the show notes, the description, everywhere everybody go follow David. Like, I promise you, there are moments in the day where you just need a laugh or two or three. David's going to give it to you every day. And he's not even trying to give it to you. He's just going to be himself and you're going to say, damn, I needed that.
- [32:26]
Mick
Yeah. You know, and it's funny to where when people could laugh at theyself. That's what I want to bring back. Nothing is off limits. You know, like back in the days, like at the cookout, if you had a cousin that was a little special. What'd your auntie say? Sit your slow ass down. Stumbling. Sit your retarded ass down somewhere. You've been trapping around out here all goddamn day. You know what I mean?
- [32:50]
David Jolly
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. For real. I love it, Dave. Well, I appreciate you taking some time, brother. You mean the world to me. Can't wait to connect in person and break bread and just hang out, man.
- [33:02]
Mick
Appreciate that. Making much success to you and your podcast. I hope it. Well, I'm not hoping it's gonna go to the stars, you know? You know?
- [33:11]
David Jolly
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
- [33:13]
Mick
For the moon, man. You know we gotta keep shooting.
- [33:16]
David Jolly
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. For all the listeners and viewers, remember your because is your superpower. Go unleash it.
- [33:26]
Mick
Thank you for tuning in to Mick Unplugged. Keep pushing your limits, embracing your purpose and chasing greatness. Until next time, stay unstoppable.